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1.) No, USB ports are always on motherboards these days. The motherboard you selected has 4 2.0 ports. The case specifications also mention USB ports on the front of the case but doesn't specify how many. You should have plenty.
2.) Yes, the case can fit 5 3.5 inch drives inside, 2 external (maybe minus one for a floppy drive), or even more if you use 5.25 to 3.5 inch mounts.
3.) No. All CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives are compatible with plain old CDs. You can even see the CD-ROM read speed under the specifications for the drive.
4.) The motherboard is the central part in the computer. Every single part connects to it. If your motherboard is bad, then your computer won't perform well either. That said, price does not equal quality. Pay more attention to reviews of people who have used it than the price.
5.) Yes, it appears compatible. The main thing you need to look for is that your motherboard, case, and power supply are all ATX to ensure they are compatible.
6.) I'm not sure what you mean by "back up copy." All you need is a install CD for the operating system you want. Windows installs are very simple. Just boot the system with the CD in the drive and follow the steps.
7.) The motherboard you selected has ethernet built in, which should work fine. It even has gigabit ethernet!
You don't need a modem unless you are using or plan on using dial-up. I don't see speakers, are you planning on only using headphones? The motherboard has a built in sound card, which may be good enough for your needs so you may not need to bother with a separate one (I have no idea. Check the reviews). Do you already have a keyboard and mouse to use? I don't see them on the list.
ahh, yes. I totally forgot about the speakers. Thanks very much for answering my questions. I have a whole bunch of spare keyboards and... mice? around so I'm not worried about that.
About the sound card.. is it better to stick with the sound card that comes with the mother board, or are "after market" sound boards generally better? I like to listen to mp3s a lot and usually pretty loud. The computer have now is 7 years old and it just a pre-made compaq and the sound card/speakers seem to work pretty well.
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Well, I picked out all the parts for my computer and I'm just looking for some feedback on what you think. This computer is mainly for gaming, so if you know of something better I could be using, go ahead and mention that (keeping in mind the price). I BELIEVE everything is compatible, but I am not 100% sure, so if someone notices something, please let me know.
The things I have listed below are EXACTLY what I am buying, nothing more, and nothing less. If I am missing something, let me know.
A few things I am concerned about:
1.) I didn't notice any USB ports, are these already on the case? Do I have to buy something extra?
2.) I have both the 200gb seagate and a 75gb raptor hds, will both of these fit in my case?
3.) I only put 1 CD/DVD burner drive on it. Will I need a seperate CD drive to install games and whatnot, or am I fine with just the 1 drive?
4.) My mother board is only 57 dollars, but it seems right for a gaming rig. I've heard that mother boards are normally something you don't want to cheap out on, so should I get a more expensive one? Which one if so?
5.) I'm not sure if my power supply is compatible, it just seemed like a good one for the price, and had good reviews.
6.) Once I assemble this thing, how will I get the operating system up and running? I have a "back up" copy of windows xp pro on a disc, will I be able to install this?
7.) Am I missing anything that I need? I think I'm missing an ethernet card, but I'm not sure if it comes with any of the things I already have. In light of this, could someone list all the things that someone would need if they were building a computer 100% from scratch? (hd, modem, processor, etc. etc., even the obvious things that are sometimes overlooked)
Sorry for all the newb hardware questions, but I figure it's better to ask newb questions than it would be to just go for it and end up ****ing myself over in the end. And now, here's my computer:
Case
ASPIRE ATXA7AW-AL/420 Silver Aluminum Server Computer Case 420W Power Supply - Retail
floppy drive
NEC Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive - OEM
gaming hd
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
regular hd
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3200826A 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
monitorNEC Display Solutions AS900-BK Black 19" CRT Monitor D-Sub - Retail
motherboard
ABIT KN8 SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
video card
eVGA 256-P2-N517-AX Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
sound card
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS SB0350 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - OEM
power supply
OCZ ModStream OCZ45012U ATX/BTX/PCI Express/SATA 450W Power Supply - Retail
2gb ram
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K - Retail
processor
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA4000BNBOX - Retail
cd/dvd burner
SAMSUNG Black IDE DVD Burner Model SH-W162C/BEBN - OEM
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For the first time I think I might give up on consoles. I'm wondering if the new consoles will really be all that great. I'm not buying the hype. Think it will really be all that great? I remember before when consoles used to be state of the art. They always used to seem so amazing and cool. Remember the Super Nintendo days? These days they are starting to seem like mini custom computers. It sucks. I would rather get a computer with better performance than the console. I know you probably can't compete with their processing power but the loading and graphics can definitely be better. I think the day of the console might be dead for me...
I agree. From now on I am sticking to computers. There is virtually no good games that come out for the consoles that aren't eventually ported to computers, legally or illegally, and there are a plethora of good games that only come out for pc, including MMORPGs, which happen to be my favorite. Of course, you can play some mmo's on consoles, but there's no point. You have to buy a bunch of extra equipment (keyboard, mouse, headset, etc.) and it's just a totally different experience.I hate to say it, but Nintendo and Sony are just out of their league these days. Of course, people will still buy the consoles, probably more than ever. But as for me, I'm dropping out of the expensive and somewhat pointless console rat race.
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is your sound embeded in your swf file?
if it is..then why not use a seperate swf for a preloader..
might be a bit of an old way to do it but should work
Make a preloader, I mean.
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is your sound embeded in your swf file?
if it is..then why not use a seperate swf for a preloader..
might be a bit of an old way to do it but should work
I'm not quite sure how to do that. I'm just starting out.
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I have the same problem but not just with flash with windows media player and i have a fast computer so what would the problem be internet connection or something totally different.Because i have no clue what it could be.
I'm a flash developer. Or at least, a budding one. I'm talking about when I actually compile the flash, there should be some way to make the sound wait for the content to fully load before playing.
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I'm having some trouble loading flash content and sound together. I would like for the content of the flash movie to load up exactly when the sound does, but usually the sound loads a little faster than the flash and the content is a little lagged/slow playing before it kicks in and sync's up. Could anyone provide some insight as to how I would load the content and sound together, so that it does not lag?P.S. I've already tried putting the sound in the first frame of the flash, but it does not seem to help. Thanks in advance!
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yes but you can only download 100mb every month...so if you ever wanted all you data back you would either have to pay for it or wait 8+years... but yes...good find..not excatly new though..
Hmm... I haven't exactly looked into it, but couldn't you simply download your files through various proxies? Or is it 100mb per month for the entire account?
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I really wish these companies would just give it up. There are too many countries and too many ways to relocate things for them to do anything about it. Are they going to send millions of people to jail?I think that if people really like a product, they will buy it anyway. The companies claim they lose millions, but it's only on people who buy the game, play it for 2 days, decide they don't like it, and are stuck with it. The company doesn't deserve their money if they didn't please the customer. That's my opinion at least.
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I finally got this working. I'll go through the process for anyone else having this trouble.
First, the programs needed...or at least, the programs I used.
1.) Dr. DivX - http://labs.divx.com/DrDivx
2.) MGI VideoWave III (newest version is 7, but I happened to have 3. they both work.) - http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/creator/suite/
3.) Ulead Gif Animator - http://download.cnet.com/s/design-animation/windows/?tag=404
The first thing you have to do, after finding the video you want to import into flash, is use Dr. DivX to convert the WMV into an AVI. After you have your AVI copy of the WMV, you open it inside Videowave. Click the produce button, and save the AVI as an MPG. Through this filtering process you do lose a tiny bit of the quality, but that is to be expected. Once in MPG form, saved through VideoWave, you can open it in Ulead Gif Animator without it erroring and the program ending abruptly. Once in the Gif animator, simply save it as a Gif or SWF file and import it into flash. Pretty simple.... once you have the right programs. Good luck! -
I don't buy any accessories for my computers. Seems like a waste of money, as you are rarely going to use them and they will only last you a few years. Sleeves? Protectors? Don't need 'em. If anything happens to my computer I'll simply file an insurance claim and buy a new one.
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I am looking into buying a new gaming pc, but I want to keep it under $1500, but still have a lot of good stuff.The only money saving things I can figure, as I am not really into computer hardware, is to use a CTR monitor instead of an LCD, lol.So, what hard drive, processor, motherboard, ram, graphics card, sound card, case, cooling, etc. etc. would you put together to get the best gaming rig you could, for under $1500?
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This program is not free, but it should do what you want. Try using Easy GIF Animator.
Thanks! Got the gif up and running smoothly... backward!
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I've got a gif that I want to reverse the animation on. Normally, I would do this by hand, but this gif in particular has about 600 frames, so I'm not so eager. Is there any sort of program that could do this for me? I use MGI videowave III and Ulead Gif Animator and neither have anything to reverse the way the frames move, at least nothing that I am aware of.Any help would be appreciated. Different programs I could use or a different method within the programs I already have. Thanks!
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Ya, that's what I made it for. I don't like those cheap sets that you have to pay for, but then you don't get anything good. So, this one is free for public use, no credit needed. Just share it when appropriate, that's the only condition
Great gif. I might size it down and use it as cute little biohazardous buttons! Thanks!
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avalanche could never be a bittorrent killer, that statement based solely on the fact that avalanche will be legal stuff (itunes for products basically) and BT will be...for what's left over.
Unless avalanceh is released as free and unrestrained by ms, it'll never kill any other p2p network that is not tied down to any legal company.
MS could be sued for developing avalanche and allowing p2p connections involving any illegal items.
BT on the other hand can't, because no one is holding the bag =P
Exactly. Especially when most of these networks are not even based in the US anymore, but in Switzerland and such where the us copyright laws don't apply.
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Yup - that's exactly it. Now all you need to do it tweak around with different effects. Create maybe 10 gif frames with various degrees of motion blurs or any other effect of your choice and compile 'em... You're a fast learner.
Cheers,
m^e
Looks good. Glad I could help you out.
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I bought a domain several years ago from a company offering no monthly fees, and a one time payment of $200, and then a yearly payment of $70. It was a good deal at the time, but now it's sort of ridiculous for what I get. I recently bought a new domain, and I would like to park my old domain on a subdomain of my new domain. The problem is, that this domain was "free" when I bought the hosting account from the no monthly fee guys. My question is, will I have to start paying a registar fee for parking my old domain at whatever.mynewdomain.com, so that when people go to my old site, it redirects them to the subdomain of my new domain? The service I have now specifically states that I can park 3 domains, including the one I bought from them, so technically I have 2 slots open. What I am afraid of is that I will discontinue my service with the old company, they will park my domain at whatever.mynewdomain.com and then I will owe some company $70 for some registar fee or something. I am not very familiar with the the whole registar/domain registering policies so any insight on this would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm new here. Just saying hello. Looks to be a great community and I can't wait to get involved.
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Looks pretty good, in my opinion. But it seems a little big to be an avatar.
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Just out of curiosity, who is the person in picture? It sort of looks like Marilyn Manson, but I know it's not.
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That's easy. What you need is Adobe Photoshop or Gimp to create the initial images. The text tool along with a few simple filters (motion blur, etc.) is all that was used to create that gif. Then after you have all of the images you need, compile them all in Ulead Gif Animator, save it as a gif, and upload it to the internet.Hope this helped.
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I need to import a WMV into flash 5, but I'm having a very hard time doing so. Obviously, I cannot import it directly. I have tried using DivX Doctor to change the WMV into an MPG (which works) and then importing the MPG into Ulead Gif Animator, so that I could save the MPG as a gif, and import it into flash. However, whenever I attempt to import WMV that I've converted into MPGs into Ulead, I always get an error and Ulead shuts itself down. This ONLY happens with MPGs that were once WMVs.Does anyone know how I can fix this, or know of a better way to convert a WMV into a GIF so that I can import it into flash?
Looping A Flash Animation Certain Times? also sound syncing.
in Graphics, Design & Animation
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Ok, I am creating a short flash movie and I need some help. My first two frames is my loader, a basic, "IfFrameLoaded; Goto" type function. The next 9 frames is a small animation that I want to loop for exactly 20.02 seconds, and then I want to move from that animation and background music, into another animation and background sound.I'm sort of at a loss as to how to do this. Is there some way I can count the amount of time that a flash file has been loaded, and then have it switch to another layer with the other animation and sound on it? A "Goto; Layer 2, Frame 1" function seems possible, but i don't know how to make it so the first animation loops for precisely 20.02 seconds. Any help is GREATLY appreciated, as is swiftness in the reply, as this is a somewhat urgent matter. Thank you in advance! :lol:P.S. Yes, I am pretty new at flash, and I am using Flash 5.